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A Main Street murder mystery 3 Angela Richman, death investigator 1 Angela Richman, death investigator. Spoken word ; bk. 2 Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 98 Dead-end job mystery series Maggy Thorsen 13 Maggy Thorsen mystery 14 Main Street mystery series Scarlet witch 1Filter By Subjects
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A Main Street murder mystery 3 Angela Richman, death investigator 1 Angela Richman, death investigator. Spoken word ; bk. 2 Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 98 Dead-end job mystery series Maggy Thorsen 13 Maggy Thorsen mystery 14 Main Street mystery series Scarlet witch 1Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGSummary: Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentine family and follows them to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrusts their young daughter to his care, unaware that he is a notorious war criminal. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring "the German doctor" to justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GERSummary: Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STABitto, Emily
Summary: On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be part of it. As the years pass, Lily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BITBalzo, Sandra.
Summary: AnnaLise returns to North Carolina to take care of her ailing mother, but a man from her past, Benjamin Rosewood, shows up in town with his family and AnnaLise must confront some difficult questions that need answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALViets, Elaine
Summary: Josie Marcus is enjoying her new assignment, sampling the local St. Louis cuisine for a City Eats Food tour, when while at the restaurant of her friend Tillie someone is poisoned, and after Tillie is arrested she begs Josie to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIEViets, Elaine
Summary: Angela Richman returns to investigate what looks like a simple case: spurned trophy wife murders elderly husband for the money. But the evidence Richman uncovers doesn't quite fit that theory.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VIEBalzo, Sandra
Summary: AnnaLise Griggs discovers that her biological father might be notorious womanizer Dickens Hart, but when Hart invites his former loves and their offspring to his White Tail Lodge a body is discovered and AnnaLise must identify the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBalzo, Sandra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALPinto, Sara.
Summary: Presents pairs of related items, such as an apple and an orange or a bicycle and a motorcycle, and asks why they are similar, while offering unexpected answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PinBalzo, Sandra.
Summary: "Maggy Thorsen and her business partner Sarah Kingston have taken on a new barista at their Wisconsin coffee house, Uncommon Grounds, to fill Amy Caprese's boots while she takes a much-needed vacation. Unfortunately Christy Wrigley's barista skills are as underwhelming as her love life, but is her luck about to change with her new beau. Christy gushes about her long distance, online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBKawakami, Mieko
Summary: Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters. These raw and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021
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Summary: The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenage, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling strokes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2016
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Summary: A young Indian woman falls for a British businessman who has come to India to work for her father's business, but must overcome the pressure of society in order to make their relationship work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRIViets, Elaine
Summary: Tired of living life on the lam, Helen Hawthorne goes back to St. Louis to clear her name of alimony evasion so she can finally marry the man she loves. But she still has to pay the bills, even if it means working at a consignment shop where the designer duds are to die for--literally. Secondhand clothes. First-degree murder. At Snapdragon, the high-end designer consignment shop, Helen is at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian/New American Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIENieh, Daniel
Summary: "A riveting thriller about a young man on the run from a furtive past, in search of a quick payday in Mexico City, who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIEOrlando, Steve
Summary: "There is a door that appears only to those who need it most. On the other side is a witchcraft shop. If your hope is gone, there you will meet...the Scarlet Witch! Wanda Maximoff is familiar with hitting rock bottom - and now that she's finally found peace, she's pledged to help others who are languishing at their lowest. But when a woman falls through Wanda's door with a terrifying story of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SCANetz, Mo
Summary: "Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NETSummary: He's an antisocial misogynist and proud of it. He is Nero Wolfe and the setting is Rome,1959. Due to small disagreements with the Feds, America's best and brightest detective has moved to Italy with his faithful assistant, Archie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NERBalzo, Sandra
Summary: "Maggy Thorsen's new neighbours, Philip and Vivian Woodward, are forging ahead with their plans for The Big Steep tea shop. Philip's enthusiasm to turn the neglected cottage once owned by Vivian's reclusive grandparents, the Koepplers, into a tea lover'sparadise is infectious, but Vivian seems less excited. And when Maggy's sheepdog Frank arrives at Uncommon Grounds coffeehouse bearing a 'gift'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021